Misadventures in the Burgess Shale

Nature. 2009 Aug 20;460(7258):952-3. doi: 10.1038/460952a.

Abstract

One hundred years after Charles Doolittle Walcott found a wealth of Cambrian fossils in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Desmond Collins reflects on the bumpy road of their classification.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article
  • Portrait

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anniversaries and Special Events
  • British Columbia
  • Classification*
  • Fossils*
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century

Personal name as subject

  • Charles Doolittle Walcott